bow

Hymn to Delian Apollo from ArtemisToxia 714 days old

[ ... ] bow. Only Leto waits besides Zeus who loved thunder. She unstrings the bow, she closes the quiver, Taking it with her hands Off his strong ...

Scythian arrow poison from ArtemisToxia 720 days old

[ ... ] a bow, and clearly describes the application of the poison. The term toxicology therefore reflects the name of this dreadful arrow poison.

The rise of the Greek archer from ArtemisToxia 733 days old

The authors of classical antiquity often speak of the Scythians as being the foremost archers of their day. The Scythian bow was introduced into Greece ...

The Scythian bow from ArtemisToxia 734 days old

Identifying the different types of bow used in ancient times isn’t easy. While no intact example of the Scythian bow has been found, scattered fragments ...

The Scythians from ArtemisToxia 735 days old

[ ... ] worshipped Artemis, goddess of hunting because of her associations with war and the bow. The Amazon features on the right in the picture below:

Bows found in Tutankhamun's tomb from ArtemisToxia 739 days old

[ ... ] his bow ‘on every side, making trail of it here and there in case grubs had eaten the pieces of horn’. The bowcase shows Tutankhamun hunting and a ...

Archers in the Egyptian Army from ArtemisToxia 746 days old

[ ... ] self bow, made from a single piece of wood. Then, after undergoing exercises designed to develop their muscles and being taught how to stand, they ...

Amenhotep II and archery from ArtemisToxia 747 days old

[ ... ] self bow along with the composite – suggesting that the self bow (made from a single piece of wood) had not been wiped out by the introduction of ...

The military skills of Tuthmosis III from ArtemisToxia 748 days old

[ ... ] he organised an elephant hunt in which he killed 120 elephants using the bow and arrow! Tuthmosis III was definitely an archer pharaoh!

Moral Warfare from ArtemisToxia 748 days old

[ ... ] a bow and arrow, a weapon that did not allow the hoplites to fight the enemy hand-to-hand. A passage in Herodotus mentions that the Spartan ...